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SheetFL-BRADENTON-FL · Bradenton, FL 56,289 pop · income 37th pct · 94 tracts
Instrument codes from this place’s ACS population and household income, BEA state COL, FBI safety, national income percentile, photo-finish peer city, home-value band, and matched Census-tract book - not a moving recommendation.
Income neighbourhood around Bradenton
Lowest/highest poles plus peers nearest Bradenton on median household income. Full ladder: /browse and /rankings.
median HH income
Margate · lowest
60,852
Margate · lowest
60,852 median HH income
54.4% of the leader · rank #1
Cedar Creek · near
60,962
Cedar Creek · near
60,962 median HH income
54.5% of the leader · rank #2
Holyrood · near
60,962
Holyrood · near
60,962 median HH income
54.5% of the leader · rank #3
Bradenton · this city
60,964
Bradenton · this city
60,964 median HH income
54.5% of the leader · rank #4
Stockton · near
60,964
Stockton · near
60,964 median HH income
54.5% of the leader · rank #5
Blue Island · near
60,965
Blue Island · near
60,965 median HH income
54.5% of the leader · rank #6
Fountain Vall… · highest
111,797
Fountain Vall… · highest
111,797 median HH income
100.0% of the leader · rank #7
What this shows Neighbourhood peers only - not a full nationwide city board. Open a near peer when the gap is small; open the poles when the spread is wide.
Compare beyond this state
Nationwide peers by population, income, and FBI crime rate
Out-of-state nearest neighbors for Bradenton on ACS population and median household income
, plus FBI UCR reporting rate when the extract covers this place. Link sets are deduped so each column is a distinct comparison path, not a forecast that peers share a labor market or climate.
Similar population
Nearest out-of-state cities by ACS population. This city: 56,289.
Agency-reported UCR totals per 100,000 population, not a neighborhood safety grade or a prediction of personal risk.
Bradenton - the verdict
Measured against every US city with at least 1,000 residents, Bradenton lands in the 37th percentile for household income and the 26th percentile for safety. Source: Census ACS + FBI UCR.
37th
percentile, household income
62nd
percentile, home value
73rd
percentile, median rent
26th
percentile, safety
📝 How we sourced this
Population, income, and housing-cost figures come from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey 5-year estimates (B-series tables). Crime data uses FBI UCR; climate uses NOAA Climate Normals; school counts come from NCES Common Core of Data; permits use the Census Building Permits Survey (BPS). See our methodology page for the full ETL pipeline and OMB / FIPS join keys.
Data Snapshot: Bradenton, FL
Bradenton is a small city in Florida, home to 56,289 residents per U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 estimates. Households in Bradenton report a median income of $60,964 per year, below the median for U.S. cities on this measure, with a poverty rate of 10.1%. Bradenton's housing stock carries a median value of $282,500, and the median resident age is 45.5 years. 27.7% of adults here have a bachelor's degree or higher; 51.9% of working-age residents are in the labor force.
In 2024, 212 residential building permits were authorized in Bradenton (Construction Slowdown), down 41% from five years earlier, per Census BPS data. Crime here tracks close to the national norm: FBI UCR figures show 2314.7 crimes per 100,000 residents, near the national average (reporting is voluntary across agencies, so treat this as reporting activity rather than a definitive danger score). The annual average temperature per NOAA climate normals runs 74.1°F with 56.3 inches of precipitation per year.
Florida carries a cost-of-living premium: on BEA's 100-equals-national-average cost index, Florida scores 103.4 (Above Average), per the 2024 Regional Price Parities release. HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in this state is $1,526 per month. Statewide, average monthly utility bills in Florida run around $225, per EIA 2023 residential energy data. On FEMA's National Risk Index, this area rates 75.7 out of 100 for natural-hazard exposure (High).
A decision-led reading path
Useful questions to ask of Bradenton's data
How this reading path is ordered
This is not a composite city score. It is a city-specific route through the available public records, ordered for this profile so the page starts with questions the joined data can actually answer. The route here runs from work and mobility to within-city variation to reported crime to comparison shortlist to schools and households to housing and income to population change to climate and hazard context; another city can have a different sequence or fewer supported layers because the source joins are not uniform.
For Bradenton, city-specific coverage includes local building permits, annual population history, commute-mode shares, matched public-school count, within-city Census tract profiles, FBI reported-crime rates.
All six city-specific enrichment layers used by this profile are present.
1. Work and mobility
What does the journey to work look like in Bradenton?
Mode share answers how workers usually travel; it does not measure congestion, reliability, distance to a particular job, or the quality of transit service. No single mode completely explains the work trip here. The mix is more useful than a one-number commute grade, especially when comparing places where transit, walking, and remote work divide the non-driving share differently.
Driving alone is the largest reported mode at 72.0%. A reliable mean commute time is not available for this row, so the mode shares carry the comparison.
What can 94 Census tracts reveal inside Bradenton?
That layer breaks the citywide income, rent, and home-value medians into smaller Census geographies, which can reveal differences that one municipal median necessarily hides. A tract is a statistical area, not a locally defined neighborhood or a promise about conditions on a particular block. Start with the city profile for the broad comparison, then use the tract layer to test whether the same housing and income pattern is consistent across the city. Large within-city spreads are a reason to avoid treating any citywide median as a universal resident experience.
PlainCities matches 94 Census tracts to this city.
What can the FBI record say about safety in Bradenton?
Treat this as a reporting-rate comparison, not a prediction of personal risk or a neighborhood-level safety grade. Tourism, daytime population, reporting practices, and variation inside the city are not adjusted away. The state rank and same-state peer table are the narrower comparisons available on this page.
The joined FBI UCR record reports 2314.7 violent and property crimes per 100,000 residents, near the 2280.5 national reference used here. The difference is 1% higher in arithmetic terms, but agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies.
Which cities make useful reference points for Bradenton?
Within Florida, the closest population matches are Sarasota (56,218 residents, $70,065 income); Apopka (56,202 residents, $95,703 income); Fountainebleau (56,453 residents, $65,568 income). Outside the state, the closest population matches in this dataset are Smyrna, GA (56,285 residents); Bentonville, AR (56,326 residents); Fountain Valley, CA (56,358 residents). A third, income-matched reference set of 6 out-of-state cities sits in the income neighbourhood chart near the Place Dossier plate. These are mechanical peer sets, not claims that the places share a labor market, climate, culture, or metro context.
Use the in-state set to hold state policy and broad price conditions more nearly constant. Use the nationwide size set to ask whether cities with a similar resident count produce different housing, income, or commute outcomes. The income set is a third lens, deliberately separate from population matching. The nationwide peer panel below adds a fourth FBI UCR reporting-rate lens, not personal risk.
These joined records add useful context, but they do not need another full-size panel. Each remains a separate measure with its own geography and source boundary.
Schools and households
What does the education layer cover for Bradenton?
The NCES join finds 50 public schools within the city match. 27.7% of adults age 25+ hold a bachelor's degree or higher in the ACS estimate. These measures answer different questions: the school count describes local institutions, while adult attainment describes residents and cannot be used as a school-quality rating.
The city has a broader matched school footprint, but count alone does not describe performance, capacity, program availability, or attendance boundaries. This profile deliberately avoids converting it into an unsupported family-friendliness score.
Matched public schools
50
Bachelor's degree+
27.7%
Poverty estimate
10.1%
NCES Common Core of Data school locations plus Census ACS resident characteristics.
How far does income reach against housing in Bradenton?
The home-value-to-income reference is comparatively stretched: the ACS median home value is 4.6 times median household income. The ACS poverty estimate is 10.1%, which keeps the citywide median from describing every household.
This is a citywide price-to-income reference, not a mortgage-affordability test; it does not include interest rates, taxes, insurance, household size, or an individual buyer's down payment. Housing value is high relative to the citywide income median. That flags a question for comparison, not a verdict: tenure, household composition, financing costs, and the age of the ACS estimate can all change what a resident actually pays.
Household income
$60,964
Home value
$282,500
Value / income
4.6×
City-level Census ACS 2023 medians. The ratio divides two separate medians and is descriptive only.
Is Bradenton growing, shrinking, or holding steady?
Recent estimates point upward. Growth can increase housing demand and service needs, but the permit record must move in the same direction before calling it a supply response; the two series measure different things.
Census PEP estimates show the population grew by +2,197 residents from 2020 to 2025, a +3.9% change. Separately, Census BPS recorded 212 housing units authorized in 2024. PEP and ACS are different Census series, so the trend is kept separate from the headline ACS population.
Period change
+3.9%
2025 estimate
58,014
2020 estimate
55,817
Census Population Estimates Program, 2020–2025; permit context uses Census BPS.
NOAA normals put the annual mean temperature at 74.1°F, with 56.3 inches of precipitation. FEMA's state-averaged National Risk Index score for Florida is 75.7 out of 100. Climate normals describe long-run weather; the FEMA score on PlainCities is a state average of county NRI inputs and combines hazards, exposure, vulnerability, and resilience.
The two sources should not be blended into one comfort or safety score. Use the climate values for baseline conditions and the risk index as a prompt to inspect specific hazards, insurance, and local emergency guidance for a particular address.
Mean temperature
74.1°F
Annual precipitation
56.3 in
FEMA risk index (state avg)
75.7
NOAA Climate Normals and FEMA National Risk Index (state-averaged on PlainCities). Hazard context is not address-level.
Below median income · poverty 10.1% (Above-median poverty)
Cost of Living Index (state)
103.4 (US=100)
Above-average cost · BEA RPP 2024, Florida average
F
City profile score · Bradenton, FL
34/100
5 published dimensions · ACS/FBI 2023
Comparative score against U.S. cities with population of 1,000 or more on Census ACS medians
(income, poverty, bachelor's share, cost of living) and FBI UCR violent-crime rates when
published. Higher means a stronger standing on those published figures, not a livability
rating, not a recommendation to move, buy, or pick a "best" city. Missing inputs drop out
and redistribute weight.
How it is calculated.
Bachelor's+ share C-
27.7%
Adults with a bachelor's degree or higher; ACS.
Poverty rate F
10.1%
Share of residents below the poverty line; lower scores better on this axis.
Household income F
$60,964
Median household income vs U.S. cities (pop ≥1,000); ACS.
Cost of living F
103.4 index
BEA state Regional Price Parities index (100 ≈ national average); lower is stronger on this axis. Same value for every city in the state.
Violent crime F
449 /100k
FBI UCR violent offenses per 100,000 residents; lower is stronger on this axis.
Bradenton profile (scored ACS/FBI dimensions)Read the chart values
Bachelor's+ share: 54/100 (C-) · 27.7%
Poverty rate: 39/100 (F) · 10.1%
Household income: 36/100 (F) · $60,964
Cost of living: 25/100 (F) · 103.4 index
Violent crime: 19/100 (F) · 449 /100k
Where Bradenton sits on home value vs crime among peer cities
Bradenton's median home value and FBI crime rate plotted with similar-size and
same-state peers (padded with large cities when the peer set is thin). The second
read: pricey does not always mean safer, check which quadrant this city lands in.
Census ACS median home value vs FBI UCR crime rate - Bradenton highlighted among 9 peers.Read the chart values
Bradenton, FL (this city): home $282,500, crime 2,315/100k
Smyrna, GA : home $409,000, crime 1,540/100k
Bentonville, AR : home $370,700, crime 1,083/100k
Fountain Valley, CA : home $1,018,600, crime 1,963/100k
Kannapolis, NC : home $245,500, crime 1,953/100k
National City, CA : home $580,900, crime 2,635/100k
DeSoto, TX : home $282,600, crime 1,969/100k
Sarasota, FL : home $409,700, crime 2,165/100k
Apopka, FL : home $364,300, crime 2,748/100k
How does Bradenton compare to other US cities?
Here's how Bradenton stacks up against the full field of US cities (population 1,000+), computed live from Census and FBI data.
Household income37% higher than other cities
Home value62% pricier than other cities
Median rent73% pricier than other cities
Safety26% safer than other cities
"Safer than" reflects total crime rate from FBI UCR; the others use Census ACS estimates.
A national percentile can hide a lot of local variation: narrowed to Florida alone, Bradenton ranks #77 of 120 Florida cities by lowest crime rate - a different, more locally useful comparison than stacking it against the entire country.
How we calculate these percentiles & ranks
Each percentile compares Bradenton against every qualifying US city; each in-state rank narrows that to Florida only. Full formula and direction notes: methodology.
Florida-relative analysis
Median Gross Rent places Bradenton near the bottom of Florida's cities
Among the 930 Florida cities PlainCities tracks with reported median gross rent data, Bradenton ranks #1 - the 0th percentile within the state. This is a different, narrower cut than the nationwide percentiles above: it compares Bradenton only against its own state's cities, not the full US field.
Median Household Income
#584 of 903
35th percentile in Florida
Median Gross Rent
#1 of 930
0th percentile in Florida
Median Home Value
#485 of 894
46th percentile in Florida
Poverty Rate
#359 of 930
61st percentile in Florida
Bachelor's Degree or Higher
#463 of 930
50th percentile in Florida
How in-state ranks are ordered
Ranked by raw value (highest first); a higher rank is not automatically "better" for every measure, see each metric's own context above. This is a comparison within Florida only, not a livability score. See the methodology for the source and calculation.
Gauge source note
37th percentile nationally for median household income · 26th percentile for safety (lower crime rate). Source: Census ACS 2023 / FBI UCR 2023.
Bradenton's profile vs. every US city
Income, affordability, and safety percentile
Bradenton's percentile rank on 3 favorable-direction measures (income, affordability, safety) vs. every tracked US city -- higher on every axis is more favorable. Not a composite quality score, just the arithmetic mean of the axes shown.
How Bradenton's home value compares nationally
Median home value vs. every US city (population 1,000+)
$282,50038th percentilemore affordable than 38% of 15,600 US cities
Show national distribution
Each bar is a $25K-wide band; taller bars hold more US cities. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year Estimates · 2023
Bradenton's home-value-to-income ratio: 4.6×
ACS median home value divided by median household income.
Band
moderate
3.0–5.0×
National rank
#12,249 of 15,516
More affordable than 21% of tracked cities (pop. 1,000+)
Size class
#407 of 750
Mid-size cities (50,000–199,999)
At 4.6×, Bradenton sits in the moderate band:
national rank #12,249 of 15,516 and #407 of 750mid-size cities (50,000–199,999).
Income and home value move in the same broad scale; check same-state peers before treating the multiple as an advantage or a warning.
How this ratio is calculated
Ratio = Census ACS 2023 median home value ÷ median household income for cities with both fields and population ≥ 1,000.
Rank 1 = lowest ratio (most compact). Bands match the fleet affordability thresholds used on guides (<3.0 / 3.0–5.0 / >5.0).
This is not a mortgage payment estimate and does not include rates, taxes, insurance, or down payment.
Income distribution context
$60,964Bradenton, FL median household income (Census ACS)
Show U.S. national quintile / Lorenz context Bradenton, FL median household income (Census ACS 5-year) with U.S. national quintile shares for context. Diagonal = equality; the curve is national, not computed for Bradenton, FL.
Key socioeconomic indicators
Bachelor's degree or higher (adults 25+)27.7%
Census ACS S1501, educational attainment
Poverty rate (households below FPL)10.1%
Census ACS S1701, poverty status
Labor force participation (adults 16+)51.9%
Census ACS S2301, share of working-age residents in the labor force
Population
56,289
Median Income
$60,964
Median Home Value
$282,500
Median Age
45.5
Poverty Rate
10.1%
Labor force participation
51.9%
Bachelor's Degree+
27.7%
Safety & Crime
Total Crime Rate
2314.7
per 100,000 residents
Violent Crime
448.7
per 100,000 residents
Property Crime
1866.0
per 100,000 residents
Crime reporting caveat
Reflects incidents reported to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program — agency participation is voluntary and reporting completeness varies by jurisdiction and year, so this reflects reporting activity, not a definitive danger score. Not adjusted for tourism, commuter, or daytime population.
Climate
Avg Temperature
74.1°F
Annual Precipitation
56.3"
Annual Snowfall
0.0"
Schools
Total Schools
50
Public schools in this city
Population Change
PEP vintage
Annual U.S. Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) estimates, 2020–2025
Bradenton's Census PEP population estimates, 2020–2025.Read the chart as text
Period
Population
2020
55,817 residents
2021
56,369 residents
2022
57,275 residents
2023
57,661 residents
2024
58,333 residents
2025
58,014 residents
Housing Supply
BPS source
Census Bureau Building Permits Survey (BPS) - annual residential permits authorized
📉 Construction Slowdown
Total Permits (2024)
212
housing units authorized
Single-Family
22
detached homes
Multifamily
190
apartments & condos
Supply Intensity
3.8
permits per 1,000 residents
5-Year Permit Trend (2019–2024)
Year
Total
Single-Family
Multifamily
Est. Value
2019
362
64
298
$43.8M
2020
152
74
78
$23.4M
2021
412
271
141
$49.9M
2022
406
70
336
$69.2M
2023
547
105
442
$93.8M
2024
212
22
190
$22.1M
Permit volume decreased 41% from 2019 to 2024.
Commute Patterns
Commute source
How workers travel to work, Census ACS 2023
Drive Alone
72.0%
Carpool
11.9%
Public Transit
0.8%
Walk
1.2%
Work from Home
10.3%
Other
3.8%
Based on 23,462 workers 16 and over.
Monthly Utility Costs
Florida statewide monthly utility average (EIA 2023): $225
EIA 2023 residential energy data puts average monthly utilities across Florida at $225 (electricity about $145 , water and sewer about $55 ).
These are Florida statewide averages, not a meter reading for Bradenton. Actual bills vary by home size, usage, and local rates. Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023.
Living Costs & Risk
Florida's BEA cost-of-living index is 103.4 (Above Average; US average = 100, RPP 2024). HUD Fair Market Rent for a typical two-bedroom in the county around Bradenton is $1,526/mo. FEMA's National Risk Index, averaged to Florida statewide on PlainCities, rates natural-hazard exposure at 75.7 / 100 (High).
Cost/risk geography note
Cost of living is a Florida statewide BEA average; rent is a county-level HUD Fair Market Rent for the county Bradenton sits in; the FEMA hazard score shown here is a statewide average of county NRI inputs, not a parcel-level reading.
How Bradenton compares to similar-size Florida cities
Same-state peer method
Closest same-state population matches, not geographic neighbors. Population + median household income come from Census Bureau ACS 5-year B01001 and B19013.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-Year 2023, FBI UCR, NOAA Climate Normals, NCES CCD, Census BPS 2024, Census ACS B08301/B08136, U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 2023, BEA Regional Price Parities 2024, HUD Fair Market Rents 2026, FEMA National Risk Index.